Tagged “software”

2023-07-02 Linux distributions as airliners
2023-06-23 Slow motion train wreck
2016-08-29 Private clouds and the future
2016-07-26 Prelude to an experiment, and down the rabbit-hole
2016-07-21 Explosive decompression of de-duplicated storage
2016-07-14 VMware is doomed
2016-07-13 Measure of rolling hash
2016-07-03 Catching up on web applications
2016-06-26 A measure of Skein
2015-06-27 Programming Myths
2015-03-06 Private subnets - first attempt
2015-03-05 Private subnets and development
2015-02-24 OpenFlow and SDN
2015-02-15 Analysis Paralysis
2015-01-31 Are Big Companies Odd?
2015-01-04 Example - Mersenne Twister random number generator
2014-12-31 Example - feed-workers
2014-12-29 Moving forward prior examples
2014-12-03 Security in numbers
2014-12-03 Security by number
2014-12-03 Security and time
2014-10-28 Multiplier
2013-08-30 Choosing ordered distinct random integers
2012-03-17 Another Lisp flashback
2011-04-14 Story based reasoning and interviews
2011-04-14 Segregation - Partition the problem
2011-04-14 Firsts
2011-02-01 Example of certificate creation with OpenSSL
2010-08-14 Strict mode for Javascript - continued
2010-07-30 Strict mode for Javascript
2010-07-15 VirtualBox as free software
2010-07-11 Odds and ends in testing with Active Directory
2010-06-21 Java for Business = Zinger from Oracle
2010-03-30 Do you trust Oracle?
2010-03-14 Re-thinking the IDE - a starting point
2010-01-30 Multiplexed FastCGI connections?
2010-01-16 Giving up HTML@W3C
2010-01-15 Efficient UTF-8 recoding and secure processing
2010-01-11 UTF8/UCS conversion benchmark
2010-01-07 Musing about cumulative impact
2009-12-29 Almost but not quite ... server-side JavaScript
2009-12-23 Wireless network and Linux
2009-12-22 Trie in Java - revisited
2009-11-29 Identifying and documenting bugs in Sun Java Printing
2009-10-23 First impressions - Google Wave
2009-10-15 PrinterJob.pageDialog() in Java is broken?
2009-10-04 Example - general purpose Trie in Java
2009-10-01 Concurrency and threading is the new thing, again.
2009-08-25 Building things
2009-08-17 Extending the Pearson hash function to larger values
2009-08-04 Installing Pidgin with support for Microsoft IM
2009-06-16 Subversion, CVS, and tags
2009-03-25 Windows 2008 Server
2009-03-08 My Google Android phone
2009-03-07 Sound troubles on Ubuntu 8.10
2009-03-02 Are designers stuck in a rut?
2009-02-21 How to get started?
2009-02-02 Elegant distributed applications
2009-02-01 Long-term compatible protocols
2009-01-29 Scripting inspired by Monad - for Unix
2009-01-25 RSS-Atom
2008-12-20 Performance parsing CSV data
2008-11-14 Microsoft Office Project Server
2008-09-18 Paper size and user interface design
2008-09-16 Covering a use-case for many screens
2008-09-14 Google's Chrome - Bet your enterprise on it
2008-09-13 Design for standard screen sizes
2008-08-28 JVM invocation - the Sun/Java folk screw up again.
2008-08-18 The stock File Open dialog is wrong.
2008-08-17 Why FileInputStream is slow - continued
2008-08-09 Desktop design needs a kick in the pants
2008-08-04 Google and Programming
2008-07-28 Today's surprise - applet reload does not sandbox
2008-07-18 Linus is a bit of a jerk
2008-06-21 Why FileInputStream is slow.
2008-06-17 Wide Finder 2 - over to the dark side
2008-06-12 Wrapping up Wide Finder 2
2008-06-11 Wide finder - final result
2008-06-11 Wide finder - combine for top N
2008-06-09 Wide finder - combine and sort
2008-06-07 Wide finder - first round
2008-06-06 Sun and tools
2008-05-31 Received a Microsoft Office XML document...
2008-05-31 Another reason for "open" document formats
2008-05-30 Is IIS still (as) relevant?
2008-03-21 One guy's take on the iPhone user interface
2008-03-20 Convert at the edges
2008-02-22 White box programming
2008-02-17 Fun with IIS 5.1 on Windows XP
2008-01-02 This is still bugging me...
2007-11-29 Wrapping up "Wide Finder"
2007-11-21 What you need for a "Wide Finder", and no more.
2007-11-20 Dumb software design - overloading Windows Startup
2007-11-13 Netbeans love-hate
2007-11-13 Dumb GUI example - menubars
2007-11-11 The Wide Finder Project
2007-10-31 Using Eclipse to improve NetBeans
2007-10-19 trackerd and Ubuntu 7.10
2007-10-18 Product activation - Corel just lost a customer
2007-09-15 Hot memory
2007-08-28 Not the definition of "lean"
2007-08-16 User centered social networks
2007-08-02 Java’s Fear of Commitment
2007-07-22 Example of configuring Trac and Subversion on Ubuntu
2007-06-13 Mapping components - Javascript
2007-06-13 examples
2007-06-13 Auto-adjusting sizer - Javascript
2007-06-11 Safari on Windows!
2007-06-09 Bouncing JSON requests - Javascript
2007-06-08 Simple Base64 encode/decode - Javascript
2007-06-08 Reading parameters from URL - Javascript
2007-06-08 Reading and saving cookies - Javascript
2007-05-16 Semantics, AI, and the Web
2007-05-13 Microsoft's last grasp
2007-05-04 Programming for the web - Javascript
2007-05-04 HTML at the W3C
2007-04-29 More reliable voting
2007-04-17 Spreadsheets and Javascript
2007-04-06 Yet another JSON implementation - Javascript
2007-03-28 REST should not be "uniform"
2007-03-23 Sun is cool
2007-03-14 Clarifying HTML
2007-03-08 Sudoku
2007-03-07 Power failure
2007-03-06 Publish or Perish
2007-03-06 Connecting the dots - Ubuntu and Java
2007-02-25 Why buy new server versions of Windows?
2007-02-23 Structured documents, DITA, DocBook, and Wikis
2007-02-22 OpenID is a big win
2007-02-20 Frustrated with WYSIWYG document editors
2007-02-16 Introducing RDFa - or re-implementing Lisp, kinda
2007-02-16 Benchmarking and FastCGI
2007-02-14 microformats revisited
2007-02-14 Bitfrost for OLPC - The revenge of Microsoft Bob
2007-01-31 Buildix alternate download
2007-01-21 First impressions - Visual Studio 2005
2007-01-12 2007 and ending needless repetition
2007-01-01 Mersenne twister - random number generator
2007-01-01 How not to introduce your project
2006-12-29 Do web server logs return useful information, anymore?
2006-12-28 WHATWG - What for?
2006-12-22 Another FastCGI install script
2006-12-18 Revisiting server-side Javascript
2006-12-12 What Are XForms?
2006-11-10 Server-side parsing of HTML to DOM
2006-11-08 Adobe, Mozilla, and Tamarin
2006-10-31 Slightly broken weblog ... and inspiration
2006-10-28 Pity the "average" user
2006-08-20 Subtext - and alternate representations of program structure
2006-08-07 Why bother?
2006-07-11 What makes a good "Databox"?
2006-06-25 New Ubuntu and VMware Server install
2006-06-14 Kind of annoying, actually
2006-06-14 Breakage - or misapplication?
2006-06-11 REST notes
2006-06-10 Impressed with Ubuntu Upgrade
2006-06-08 Java and Gnome
2006-06-03 Javascript on the server
2006-05-31 Understanding RAID-Z
2006-05-30 chandanlog(3C) - The Story of OpenGrok - the Wicked Fast Source Browser
2006-04-22 Algorithm - Find Greatest Sequence
2006-03-18 Ubuntu, Debian, and Java
2006-03-10 It's Google and users, not Microsoft
2006-03-07 (non)expert advice from ZNet
2006-02-25 Argh - Windows (re-)installation woes
2006-01-30 User Interface Goals
2006-01-27 Measure of a mindset and end-to-end checks
2006-01-18 IIS Troubleshooting and VMware
2006-01-15 Open Microsoft Formats?
2005-12-31 IIS6 troubleshooting advice
2005-12-31 Dirty play - Massachusetts and Microsoft
2005-12-26 jsp:plugin grief (cont'd)
2005-12-26 Java Applets that "just work"
2005-12-25 jsp:plugin grief
2005-12-08 SCO Raises New Funding
2005-12-05 Open source, and when not
2005-12-02 Two points worth repeating
2005-12-02 HP system customers got the message
2005-11-19 Xen, Java and Web Hosting
2005-11-18 What don't we have to buy?
2005-11-17 Sun and ZFS
2005-11-17 Setting up Ubuntu, VMware and Windows
2005-11-04 Postel’s Law - liberal in what you accept, conservative in what you generate
2005-11-02 ACT & Boston ODF Day
2005-11-01 Sony - clueless about software?
2005-10-18 Jini and XML
2005-10-16 How Swing Components are displayed (Tell me it isn't so!)
2005-10-15 Passwords on the web as a security risk
2005-10-11 Is Microsoft becoming Burroughs?
2005-09-18 Insecure voting
2005-09-18 ... but wait ...
2005-09-11 mouse test
2005-08-28 Credit where due - to Microsoft
2005-08-20 $$ Inertia in markets
2005-08-18 Follow that car! - new Microsoft Patent
2005-08-13 Fingerprinting Paper
2005-08-08 Longhorn and RSS
2005-08-03 Automatic Surveillance Via Cell Phone
2005-08-02 Hitting the High Notes
2005-08-02 Instant Outlining
2005-07-03 A step in the right direction
2005-06-25 Apple going to Intel - yet another speculation
2005-06-14 Web-based command-line interpreter
2005-06-06 IBM really blew it with the PowerPC
2005-05-26 OASIS Office Document Standards
2005-05-17 Java Harmony
2005-05-12 Web versus desktop - a personal example
2005-05-10 Mobile Web Design
2005-05-06 Google Web Accelerator considered useful
2005-04-20 Google Doom
2005-04-15 CDDL - Sun's license for Solaris
2005-04-08 Ubuntu - seems to be it
2005-04-05 Playing with Linux/Solaris again
2005-04-04 Use the web (Microsoft Windows Media)
2005-04-04 No software patents means no software patents
2005-03-31 What happened to Yahoo!?
2005-03-31 Dubious DVDs
2005-03-30 Fedora core
2005-03-29 Usability references
2005-03-29 Solaris 10 attempt
2005-03-29 Debian install - sort'a
2005-03-25 No small fonts, please
2005-03-25 Designing a better cell phone user interface
2005-03-19 A good use for the <blink> tag
2005-03-04 Carly's Way
2005-02-18 ajax - a new approach to web applications
2005-02-15 Is Ada one of the "Technology Losers"?
2005-02-15 Groupware?
2005-02-14 Strong Typing vs. Strong Testing
2005-02-01 Welcome to Solaris?
2005-01-30 Building a better string class
2005-01-29 Building a better string class - what advantage in copy-on-write for std::string?
2005-01-29 Building a better string class - sentinels and wrap up
2005-01-29 Building a better string class - comparing class implementations
2005-01-22 Speed versus complexity in User Interface interaction
2005-01-20 Jonathan and IBM
2005-01-18 Structure editors, IDEs, and another Lisp flashback
2005-01-17 A diversion into hash tables and binary searches
2005-01-16 How to build a better string class - and a surprise
2005-01-16 Continued - building a better string class - assumptions revised
2005-01-10 IBM Press room - Press releases
2005-01-07 Legacy of Dhrystone
2005-01-04 Screwed by Microsoft
2005-01-01 What do we really need from a database?
2004-12-30 Battling the antibodies
2004-12-29 Reverse Proxies and the "Location" or "Content-Location" headers.
2004-12-29 One IDE to Rule Them All?
2004-12-25 isapi_reward restart
2004-12-04 Optimal code
2004-11-14 Can We Please Bury the Netscape Metaphor?
2004-11-13 Good stuff - Kitten's Spaminator
2004-11-09 Islands in the distance
2004-10-08 What happened to Microsoft?
2004-10-08 Server-side Java performance
2004-08-21 Patents and Linux
2004-08-21 Maybe using XHTML is not such a good idea
2004-08-21 Litmus tests for Java
2004-08-19 Sun was cool
2004-08-05 Upgraded my wireless network
2004-08-01 IBM and Linux
2004-07-26 Compilers - back to basics
2004-07-10 Klunky user interfaces
2004-07-10 iChat AV
2004-07-04 isapi_reward preview
2004-07-02 Sam Ruby - Knot Theory
2004-06-25 ACDK
2004-06-23 Why open-source Java?
2004-06-23 Lisp and blurring the line between code and data.
2004-06-23 A crossroads in software development.
2004-06-22 Databases, object "prevalence", and OODBMS flavors
2004-06-18 Massively scalable wikis
2004-06-15 Microsoft is betting the company on the rich client.
2004-06-12 Hackers and Painters
2004-06-11 CVS, Windows, and timezone confusion
2004-06-09 ActiveCVS
2004-06-05 Weblogs, Wikis and too many constraints
2004-06-03 Source code control and precluding errors
2004-06-03 OpenOffice and XML
2004-06-03 Genx - portable XML generation in "C"
2004-06-03 Doug Engelbart 1968 Demo
2004-05-26 Vintage - software?
2004-05-13 Finding Lisp
2004-05-07 Long Bets - Passing the Turing test by 2029
2004-04-14 Universal Calendars and Scheduling?
2004-01-30 Talk at UCI
2004-01-28 Web protocol library